In response to the recent extraordinary strandings of bottlenose dolphins along the East Coast and of California sea lion pups along the West Coast, combined with the proposed decrease in federal funding for US marine mammal stranding response efforts, the International Fund for

In what is being touted as a world first, all three of South Africa’s major online trading sites are adopting a joint advertising policy aimed at stamping out dubious online pet trade.

Gumtree South Africa, Junk Mail and OLX, have announced an outright ban on sales of “fighting breed” dogs, all “free to good home” pets, sales of exotic reptiles mammals and sales of indigenous reptiles and mammals, including primates, birds and arachnids.